Psychology Revivals
About the Book Series
Psychology Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Following the success of the Routledge Revivals programme, this time encompassing a vast range from across the Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with both Routledge and Psychology Press, restoring to print books by some of the most influential scholars of the last 120 years.
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The Structure of Human Abilities
1st Edition
By Philip E. Vernon
January 09, 2015
First published in 1950, this revised edition of The Structure of Human Abilities was published in 1961, but remained largely unchanged from the original save for an additional supplement on the developments in factorial work on human abilities from 1950-1959. Much research had been carried out ...
Between Psychology and Psychotherapy: A Poetics of Experience
1st Edition
By Miller Mair
December 22, 2014
In this highly original and thought-provoking work the late Miller Mair puts forward his ideas for a new psychology. First published in 1989, he deals with issues of fundamental importance to the future of a psychology guided by genuine enquiry and concern rather than mere professional ...
Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology
1st Edition
By Ian Parker
December 22, 2014
What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? Originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the few texts to ...
George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733)
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Porter
December 22, 2014
‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments. The English Malady was one of the best known and most influential books of the Georgian age, ...
Historical Social Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen
December 22, 2014
The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in ...
Images of Art Therapy: New Developments in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Tessa Dalley, Caroline Case, Joy Schaverien, Felicity Weir, Diana Halliday, Patsy Nowell Hall, Diane Waller
December 22, 2014
Working through the process of image-making in a therapeutic relationship, the art therapist is able to explore feelings, fantasies, and myths in different setting with diverse client groups. Originally published in 1987 Images of Art Therapy is a collection of essays by experienced art therapists ...
Pathology of Eating: Psychology and Treatment
1st Edition
By Sara Gilbert
December 22, 2014
Originally published in 1986, Sara Gilbert provided the first systematic and comprehensive coverage of the psychological aspects of eating disorders and their treatment. The book begins with an account of normal eating behaviour and the problems of explaining its control in the individual in the ...
Piaget Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbel Inhelder, Denys de Caprona, Angela Cornu-Wells
December 22, 2014
Originally published in 1987, the contributors bring their different orientations to the study of child development and genetic epistemology to show the continuing value of Piaget's theory and its fruitfulness in providing insights which permit the advancement of science. This volume contains the ...
Pictures at an Exhibition: Selected Essays on Art and Art Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Gilroy, Tessa Dalley
December 22, 2014
Originally published in 1989 Pictures at an Exhibition brings together a rich collection of essays, representing the diversity of views and approaches among professionals towards art and psychoanalysis and art therapy. The editors, both of whom are practising art therapists and art therapy ...
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology: And How to End It
1st Edition
By Ian Parker
December 22, 2014
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989 The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex body of...
The Structure of Human Personality
1st Edition
By Hans Eysenck
December 22, 2014
Originally published in 1953, this third edition was first published in 1970. It was one of the early attempts at bringing together theories of personality organisation and finding empirical evidence to test their hypotheses. This third edition includes additional chapters and updated references to...
Tomorrow I'll Be Slim: The Psychology of Dieting
1st Edition
By Sara Gilbert
December 22, 2014
Why do so many people try dieting, only to fail? What distinguishes those who succeed from those who do not? Are fat people really any different from thin people? What makes us eat, and how do we stop eating? And how can dieting trigger problems with eating normally? Originally published in 1989, ...